Desk for hotel-registers.



Patented Dec. l0, 190i.

G. P. RUSE, JR.

DESK FDR HOTEL REGISTERS.

m T A m M No. 688,696. Patented Dec. I0, I90I. 6. P. BOSE, In.

DESK FOR HOTEL REGISTERS.

(Application filed Jul;' 5, 1901.)

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Shut 2.

UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

GEORGE'P. ROSE, JR, OF. DUBUQUE, IOWA ASSIGNOR TO THE TELEGRAPH,

OFDUBUQUE, IOlVA, A CORPORATION OF IOYVA.

DESK FOR HOTEL-REGISTERS.

rsEEOIFlOATlON forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 688,696, dated December 10, 1901.

Application filed July 5, 1901.

To ctZZ whom Lt may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE P. Rosn, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Dnbuqne, State of Iowa,

5 have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Desks for Hotel-Registers; and

I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to various improvements in the construction and use of desks for hotel-registers, more particularly such as have glass advertising show-cases attached :5 to the desk; and one of the objects is to provide means for adj ustabl y attaching the showcase to the desk, whereby it may be held at a given angle or turn over entirely off from the register.

Another object is to lock down the showcase upon one page of the register, whereby the desk may be turned up or over and the show-case held firmly-n the register and also hold theregister on the desk when thus turned wholly or partly over.

Another objectis to provide means whereby the register will also be held rigid on the desk and not subject to movement in any direction when registration is entered thereon.

A further object is to improve the construction of the show-case whereby it will be rendered m uch more rigid and less liable to breakage of the glass, as well as furnish larger and better opportunity for advertising purposes.

The manner of construction by which I obtain these various objects and others of less importance will be fully set out and described in the following specification when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

Figure 1 isaperspective of my device, taken from one corner. Fig. 2 is a perspective of one corner of the desk and register thereon, together with the standard for adj ustably attaching the show-case, the balance of the desk cutaway. Fig. 3 shows a back View of the desk and of the show-case when raised to a right angle with the desk. Fig. 4 shows a front View of the desk with the show-case down and the locking device attached thereto and also the locking device engaging the pin in dotted lines. Fig. 5 shows a portion of the rod for attaching the showcase and the pin for locking it in an opened position. Fig. 6 shows the formation of the show-case with parts cut away. Fig. 7 is a cross-section through line X X of Fig. 6.

Like letters of reference denote corresponding parts in all of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the desk, which consists of a board preferably covered with cloth and surrounded on three sides with wooden strips (4, provided with metallic, ornamental, and staying cornerstrips 1). Along the front side of the desk is 6 placed a strip B, which is somewhat wider than the width of the board A and wider than the'strips a, the object of which will presently appear. I

Upon the rear opposite corners of the desk A are secured standards D. These standards consist of two plates (Z and e, united together and attached to the desk by the'screw E. The plate e has one of its edges cutaway on its under side sufficient to allow the cover of '75 the register G to he slid in under the part b of the plate 6, whereby the register-book is firmly held from movement at its upper opposite corners. The standards D are also provided with an upright portion H, set at right angles to the plates d and 6 Through the upright H is an oblong hole I, and projecting at right angles from each of the said uprights is a pin K, the objects of which will presently appear. I

The show-case L is constructed in the following manner and consists of two pieces of channel-barshaped metal 71" shaped with rounded corners 0. These two parts are I, united together by a metal strip 13, brazed to ()6 the inner side of one of the strips and fasf tened to the other strip by the screw q.

Constructing the show-case in twopieces and firmly uniting them together renders it as rigid as though cast of one piece of metal and reduces the danger of the breakage of the glass therein to almost the minimum. .Within this show-case in the upper side when the case L is resting upon the register is first placed a plate-glass M. Next to this, facing toward the glass, is the advertising-sheet N. Upon this is placed a (Shown in Figs. (5 and 7.) I00 and become liable to'be broken.

board 0, and against the board O is a hotel guide I, facing downward or in the opposite direction from the advertising-sheet N, and upon the under side is placed a transparent celluloid plate Q, which serves to protect the hotel-guide I. Near the opposite lower rear corners of the show-case are rigidly secured the rectangular loop R, for the purpose presently to appear.

For the purpose of adjustably attaching the show-case to the desk and for conveniently operating the same there is placed in the slots I of the upright portion H a bar S. (Shown in Fig. 5.) metal, of rectangular shape and preferably hollow. At its ends the bar is made solid and round to form the hearings in the slot I. Between the hearings s of the body of the bar is a shoulder 'l, and through this shoulder passes the pin U, which projects a shortdistance on one side of the shoulder and is adapted to engage the pin K on the upright II and hold the show-case rigidly in an open or upright position at nearly a right angle to the plane of the desk. This bar is passed through the metal loops it, attached to the show-case, and finds its bearings in the standards H.

To the forward end of the show-case when it is closed down upon the register is secured a locking-plate V. (Shown more particularly in Fig. 4.) This plate is provided with hooked arms 15. Into the forward edge of the desk are inserted two pins W, with which the hooks t .35

engage and lockthe show-case down upon the register, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 4.

The mode of operating my device is substantially as follows: The register-Gris placed upon the desk A, with its upper opposite corners underneath the part bof t-he'plate eand the lower portion of the coverof the register rigidly set against the raised portion of the strip B. In this manner it will be seen that the register will not move in any direction when the party is registering or writing upon the book and can only be moved by raising it up off from the register. Thisholding of the register rigidly upon the desk is of great .value in the practical use of this class of desks. The show-case, filled and attached as hereinbefore described, when resting upon one page of the register will be firmly locked down by the engagement of the hooks twith the pins W, and when the desk is raised up for any cause the show-case will not fallback When it is necessary to unlock the show-case and raise it for change of I'GglSlJGISzOi ditferent page of the'register or to consult; the hotel-guide, the show-case may be pushed along on the bar This bar S is made of until the hooks have been disengaged from the pin W, and the show-case may be raised to the position as shown in Fig. 3. If it is desired to turn the show-case over entirely off from the register and the desk, then the showcase when it has been turned to the position shown in Fig. 3 may he vertically raised with the rod in the slots Iuntil the pin U has become disengaged from the pin K,

and then the show-case may be'laid over back off from-the desk. This use of the show-case is of great convenience in many ways.

Having now described my invention,-What I claim, and desire to secure byL'etters Patcut, is t 1. In a device of the characterdescribed, a desk, a show-case, a register thereon and means for locking the show-case and register upon the desk, consisting of a plate secured to the show-case and provided with hooks, and pins attached to the desk with which the hooks engage, as and for the purposes shown.

'2. In a device of the character described, a desk, a show-case, a register thereon, means for holding the register upon the desk, consisting of plates adapted to engage the upper corners of the register and a strip projecting abovethe front of the desk against which the register rests, and means for locking the show-case and the register upon the desk, as and for the purposes shown.

3. In a device of the character described, a desk, a show-case, a register thereon, means for holding the register upon the desk consisting of plates adapted to engage the upper corners of the register and a strip projecting above the front of the desk against which the register rests, and means for locking the show-case and the register upon the desk, consisting of a plate attached to the showcase, hooks upon said plate, pins secured in the desk with which the hooks engage, all combined, as and for the purposes shown.

4. In a device of the character described, a desk, a show-case adjustably attached to the desk and means for holding the show-case at an angle to the desk, consisting of uprights, secured to the opposite sides of the desk, slots in said uprights, a pin projecting from said uprights, a rod loosely engaging the showcase and having its bearings in said slots and pins upon said rod adapted to engage the pins upon the uprights, all combined substantially as and for the purposes shown.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name in the presence of. two witnesses.

GEORGE P. ROSE, JR.

Witnesses:

M. M. OADY, J. H. KRUEGER.

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